Aerosol optical properties

In situ measurements of aerosol optical properties were made in summer 2008 at the ALOMAR station facility (69◦ 16 N, 16◦ 00 E), located at a rural site in the North of the island of Andøya (Vesteralen archipelago), about 300 km north of the Arctic Circle. The extended three months campaign was part of the POLAR-CAT Project of the International Polar Year (IPY-2007-2008), and its goal was to characterize the aerosols of this sub-Arctic area which frequently transporte to the Arctic region. The ambient lightscattering coefficient, σs (550 nm), at ALOMAR had a hourly mean value of 5.

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In this paper, the optical depths, scattering coefficient, absorption coefficient, extinction coefficient and single scattering albedo were modeled using Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds (OPAC) by slightly altering the number densities of water soluble at spectral range of 0.25 – 1.00 µm for eight different relative humidities (RHs) (0, 50, 70, 80, 90, 95, 98 and 99 %). The data was used to calculate the radiative forcing (RF).

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